| 2023-07-14 | 97 | Beth Nielsen Chapman | "Love" | Love +1 | We are so intimately made of magic that even our obtusely yearning theisms are helplessly charming. |
| 2023-06-23 | 5 | Beth Nielsen Chapman | "Back to This Moment" | single | not the line. |
| 2018-02-09 | 25 | Beth Nielsen Chapman | "Come to Mine" | Hearts of Glass | But here is the thing: when faith succumbs to inspiration, it betrays the depth of its empathy for evil. |
| 2016-10-14 | 62 | Beth Nielsen Chapman | "Almost Home" | Uncovered | Beth Nielsen Chapman co-wrote "Almost Home" with Mary Chapin Carpenter. It closes Uncovered, an album of Chapman's versions of songs she wrote for and with other people. "Almost Home" flirts with afterlife-as-goal fatalism, and Carpenter's version played it for country-gospel reverence. But this one sounds more like a demo, less worshipful than sentimental. |
| 2016-10-14 | 63 | Beth Nielsen Chapman | "Life Holds On" | Beth Nielsen Chapman | And I might not trust that subjective distinction, but this is the first Beth Nielsen Chapman song I ever heard, when I was younger and a lot less tolerant, and somehow I believed it immediately. |